Toshiba Qosmio G50 Laptop

[Regina]

Toshiba’s new Qosmio G50 laptop runs against conventional notebook logic by not only going big, but going bigger than ever before. It follows Acer’s Gemstone 8920 through the recently broken 17-inch size barrier with an enormous 18.4-inch screen. With all that viewing area and a native resolution that exactly matches that of 1080p HD content, Toshiba is pushing the G50 as the ultimate portable movie machine.

The Qosmio G50 series is Toshiba’s latest cutting edge laptop featuring the very latest in entertainment technology.It also has some unique movie-centric hardware squirreled away within. Besides the usual CPU and GPU, the G50 sports a variant of the Cell processor used in the Sony PlayStation 3.

Qosmio series line-up with the Qosmio G50 laptop, that will be available in two model; the high-end G50/98J and the standard G50/96 models. Technically speaking, the G50/98J sports a NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT GPUs, digital TV tuner, Intel Core 2 Duo T9550 2.66GHz processor, 320GB×2 dual HDD. while the G50/98J Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.40GHz) processor, 500GB of HDD,Intel GM45 Express Chipset.

Premium Design

When it comes to full-on entertainment no other machines come close to this Qosmio® laptop series. Along with many other entertainment extras these laptops offer an extra-wide 18.4-inch diagonal HD+ TruBrite® wide-angle display, which not only delivers stunning visuals, but provides the best viewing for widescreen movies with its 16:9 aspect ratio.

Massive Storage

500GBs worth on two huge 250GB hard drives! That’s a gi–normous half a terabyte of storage to hold more blockbuster hits, more home movies, more music, more photos, plus more personal and work files than ever before.

Powerful NVIDIA® Graphics

If you’re into action, discrete graphics is the name of the game. And this Qosmio laptop series offers just that with the muscular NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600M GT graphics system and its 512MB DDR3 discrete graphics memory*. Hair–trigger movement. Fantastic lighting and textures. No, you’re not in Kansas anymore.

Incredible Surround Sound

Booming harman/kardon® stereo speakers, a powerful subwoofer and Dolby® Home Theater™ create an amazing sonic backdrop for all your entertainment, including virtual surround listening on your laptop or headphones, plus full 5.1 surround sound on external speakers. Let’s hear it!

[Gonzo]

The huge 18.4” screen is perfect for watching movies and supports full HD resolution up to 1920x1080 pixels. A high gloss finish with a sleek latchless design also makes this laptop look as good as it performs. Aided by Intel Centrino2 technology, the G50 series offers powerful computing for all types of applications.

In addition the onboard Toshiba Quad Core HD processor brings existing DVDs and movies to new heights with the ability to upscale standard definition footage into high definition. This extra processor also allows the G50 series to be controlled by simple hand gestures via the built-in webcam. nVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 512Mb graphics, a built-in digital TV tuner and a Harman Kardon speaker system are also included to make the G50 series a formidable entertainment laptop.Toshiba complements this array of graphic niceties with the type of aural capabilities rarely found on laptops.

Drawing upon technology from Harmon Kardon, the G50 gets both stereo speakers and a subwoofer packed into its shell, for a listening experience that should literally be booming. And if you would rather use the G50 as the media center for a real home theater system, it has full 5.1 channel output to power up your living room speakers, as well.

Technical Details

1. Intel® Centrino® Processor Technology featuring Intel® Core 2 Duo Processor P8600
   
   
2. Genuine Windows® Vista® Home Premium
   
   
3. DVD-RW SuperMulti drive (Double Layer)
   
   
4. 4Gb DDR RAM (800MHz)
   
   
5. 18.4" Widescreen TruBrite® HD+ (1680 x 945) High Brightness display

[Pugsly]

Japanese company Toshiba has released many of the most exciting specs for the G50 well ahead of its July launch date, the laptop’s most likely Achilles Heel – weight – has been curiously missing from press releases and tech specs. Based on the only other 18.4-inch machine the market, the aforementioned Aspire 8920, we would guess that the G50 would likely come in around 9 or 10 pounds. While that’s more than most people would ever want to carry, that does make it perfectly luggable in a household or office situation where a permanent desktop just won’t fly.

Qosmio G50 Multimedia Laptop retailed at £1,249.95.

[Simond]

As for connectivity, you’ll found three USB 2.0 ports, eSATA port, ExpressCard slot, multiple memory card reader, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI output, D-Sub15 pin, and FeliCa port. These laptop also has pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium (32bit) operating system including Microsoft Office 2007 applications.